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Smithsonian Institution Naturalist Center, Leesburg, closed in 2011 [67] Statlers Museum, Staunton, museum of the Statler Brothers, closed in 2002 [68] United States Geological Survey Visitors Center, Reston [69] United States National Slavery Museum. Virginia's Explore Park.
September 22, 1971. Designated VLR. March 18, 1975 [2] The Mary Washington House, at 1200 Charles Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the house in which George Washington 's mother, Mary Ball Washington, resided towards the end of her life. It is now operated as an 18th-century period historic house museum, one of several museums in ...
To the west of Arlington House, tall grass and low native plants led down a slope into a natural area of close-growing trees the Custises called "the Grove." [12] About 60 feet (18 m) west of the flower garden, "the Grove" contained tall elm and oak trees which formed a canopy. An informal flower garden was planted beneath the trees and ...
Designated CP. May 16, 2002. Designated VLR. November 5, 1968 [ 2] Kenmore, also known as Kenmore Plantation, is a plantation house at 1201 Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Built in the 1770s, it was the home of Fielding and Elizabeth Washington Lewis and is the only surviving structure from the 1,300-acre (530 ha) Kenmore ...
The Spotsylvania Towne Centre (formerly Spotsylvania Mall) is a mall located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, on Virginia State Route 3, less than a mile west of Interstate 95, and directly across from the Central Park shopping and dining complex. The mall is owned and developed by Cafaro Company. The property was renamed as "Spotsylvania ...
Highlights: Take in the German heritage of Fredericksburg and plan tastings at well-established wineries including Becker Vineyards, Kuhlman Cellars, and William Chris Vineyards, which hands out ...
July 24, 1979. ( #79003279) Hanover St. and Sunken Rd. 38°17′46″N 77°28′11″W. / 38.296111°N 77.469722°W / 38.296111; -77.469722 ( Brompton) Residence of the President of the University of Mary Washington; headquarters of Confederate General James Longstreet during the Battle of Fredericksburg (1862–1863) [7] 3. Carl's.
Fredericksburg's daily newspaper is The Free Lance–Star. The Free Lance was first published in 1885, and competed with two twice-weekly papers in the city during the late 19th century, the Fredericksburg News and The Virginia Star. While the News folded in 1884, the Star moved to daily publication in 1893. In 1900, the two companies merged ...